September 15, 2019

The mission for the civic hackers was clear: put city government statistics on police gun intake, 911 calls and 311 calls to good use. About 50 civic hackers took over the LouieLab space on West Main Street on Saturday to take part in Code...

Crowdsourced data is beginning to paint a picture of Louisville’s internet infrastructure, neighborhood by neighborhood. But the only way for organizations seeking to improve or add internet service in town to really drill down is for as many people as possible to participate. That’s where...

Members of the Civic Data Alliance — a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, which seeks to use public data online for civic good — are calling for the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator’s office to release its full sets of data on home and...

Louisville’s Civic Data Alliance is dedicating its annual Code for America civic hacking event, Code Across, to helping the American Printing House for the Blind further develop their navigation app, Nearby Explorer. The app was released late last year for Android phones. The American Printing House...

At this week’s #OpenCoffeeLou, we heard about a struggle between hackers and Metro Louisville which was resolved even before the recap of the meeting went to print. Code for America and Metro Louisville are partnering to hold a civic data Hack-a-thon on Feb. 23...

Author’s note: 10:52 p.m. Fixed a broken link and corrected the location of #OpenHack There was something in the quality of light this morning that made me roll down my car windows during my drive to #OpenCoffeeLou at Taco Punk. It wasn’t all that warm...

Our coder and developer friends are telling us to think of this as “the Peace Corps for geeks,” a new kind of public service that taps into America’s deep bench of technical talent for the public good. Next year, Louisville is slated to join...